Meany escalates AFL CIO attack on Nixon wage plan
AFL-CIO President George Meany steps up opposition to President Nixon's wage price controls in a Miami Beach telegram to labor leaders. He says the Pay Board ruling takes workers' money and gives it to employers, questioning its impact on inflation. He faces a convention decision on staying on or quitting the board.
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George Meany
Nixon
Meany
Big
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Afl-Cio Metal Trades Department
Meat Cutters
I. W. Abel
United Steelworkers
Floyd Smith
International Association of Machinists
Frank %. Fitzsimmons
The
Teamsters
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers
Ex Mental Patient Faces Murder Charge in Texas
A former mental patient, George Albert Whittington Jr., 26, is charged with murder after five Tennessee teens were found imprisoned Tuesday night in a Houston area house. Eddie Eugene Seat, 18, of Dyersburg, was drowned in a bath tub. three teens were found in a locked closet. The survivors Robert Franklin Davis 16 Michael Davis 18 Candy Marie Davis 16 and Kenneth Colvin 16 hitchhiked to Beaumont seeking work. Colvin was wanted in Dyersburg on grand larceny and third degree burglary. Six youths left Dyersburg Saturday. Calvin Colvin turned back after Louisiana questioning.
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Houston, Tex
Tennessee
Eddie Eugene Seat
Dyersburg
Tenn
George Albert Whittington Jr
Whittington
Colvin
Houston
Calvin Colvin
Kenneth
Louisiana
Cleanup campaign delayed by project reports and cold snap
Lawrence organizers say assessment of the Fall Mini Cleanup is postponed until reports on completed and planned projects are finished. Chairwoman Mrs. Camera Nash cites a cold snap slowing execution of several projects and ongoing reports to the Chamber of Commerce Women's Division.
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Camera Nash
Women’s Division
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Hillcrest Sixth Graders Start World of Work Production
Hillcrest School sixth graders run six student factories to manufacture candles food sewn goods centerpieces crafts and construction items. They set up an outlet gift store a warehouse a board of directors and a bank loan with procedures on financing and repayment due in January.
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Hillcrest School
Robert Malott Elected President of FMC Corp
Robert H. Malott, 45, son of KU former chancellor Deane W. Malott, is named president of FMC Corp. effective Jan 1, 1972 with headquarters in San Jose California. He has 19 years with FMC in multiple executive roles and serves on the board and executive committee.
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Robert H. Malott
Deane W. Malott
FMC Corp
San Jose
Calif
Malott
Chicago
Lawrence
Ninth
Maple Streets
Kaw River
Deane Malott
Robert Malott
KU Endowment Association
Chicago Area
Ground Broken for Hunt Park in Kansas City
Ground breaking ceremony held for La mar Hunt's Worlds of Fun recreation park about seven miles northeast of downtown Kansas City. Hunt, Chiefs owner and Mid-American Enterprises chair, led officials in the event. The project covers about 140 acres with 360 acres for related commercial use and aims to finish by April 1973. The park will feature five world sections American European African Scandinavian and Oriental.
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Kansas City
Lamar Hunt
Hunt
Kansas City Chiefs
Mid- American Enterprises
City
Clay County
Christmas Mail Allowed for POWs in Vietnam
A Vietnam prisoner support group says North Vietnamese authorities will accept one 11 pound package and one greeting card for each American prisoner at Christmas. Barbara Webster reported Paris assurances from Nguyen Minh By to renew the yearly mail privilege, noting North Vietnam recognizes the committee as the sole contact between prisoners and families via its New York office.
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New York
Vietnam
Barbara Webster
Paris
Nguyen Minh
Senate balks at deeper cuts for arms aid
The Senate rejected 64 to 24 a bid to cut military aid further, fearing new reductions would threaten U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. Senators Fulbright and Stennis clashed over adds and restores totaling hundreds of millions within a $2.3 billion foreign aid package as the clock ticks toward November 15 expiration.
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Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Vietnam
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
House
Fulbright
Stennis
South Vietnam
History Group Votes Tonight
Irvin E. Youngberg executive secretary of the Kansas University Endowment Assn will speak at the Douglas County Historical Society meeting at Eldridge House at 6 30 p m He discusses the Watkins National Bank building former city hall and its link to the society Members vote on using the old city hall as a historical museum The board has approved the step and membership approval is needed J W Paddock is society president and presides tonight
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Irvin E. Youngberg
The
Kansas University Endowment Assn
Douglas County Historical Society
Eldridge House
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